5 Awesome Adele Moments: Relive her amazing Perth show

The West AustralianWednesday, 1 March 2017 8:01AM

Fan frenzy for Adele

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VideoHear what fans thought of Adele's record breaking concert

The Crowd

“There are so many of you!” With Adele due to come on stage at 7.30pm, fans might have been forgiven for worrying that they might miss the start as queues snaked hundreds of metres - and we mean HUNDREDS of metres - around the block, over the bridge and into the next suburb. But never fear, she was there for her fans and delayed coming on stage until the trains could get the punters to the stadium and the queues subsided. What a gal.

Superstar Adele has set a new record performing in Perth's biggest concert of all time

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VideoSuperstar Adele has set a new record performing in Perth's biggest concert of all time

The Stage

What a stage it was. A theatre-in-the-round set up turned the playing surface of Subiaco Oval into a mass of Adele fans, some seated so close they could almost touch the songstress. Even in the cheapest (not exactly cheap, but worth it, according to fans) seats, the view of the on-stage action was intimate despite the massive crowd, thanks to the vast wrap-around screens projecting the superstar’s face several storeys high. Plus a video montage of our great city, including Cottesloe Beach. Here’s how it was built:

Adele has Tweeted her excitement for her Perth show with this timelapse video of her impressive stage set-up.

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VideoAdele has Tweeted her excitement for her Perth show with this timelapse video of her impressive stage set-up.

Of course... what else did you expect? And for those who couldn’t get a ticket, here’s a recap of her banter with the crowd. You could be forgiven for thinking she was having a casual chat with her best mates, not 65,000 strangers. Yes, it was a bit sweary, but so what?

What an amazing personal touch and incredible attention to detail. When powerful confetti guns blasted hundreds of thousands of pieces of confetti into the night sky, it was straight out of the big stadium concert playbook. But it was what was written on those pieces of confetti that showed Adele’s the incredible attention to detail: messages from Adele printed in her handwriting: Thanks for coming indeed.

It’s a stadium concert perennial - the crowd holding up cigarette lighters and swaying with the music. But Adele’s request for Perth to dig deep into their fading mobile phone batteries to turn Subiaco Oval into a spectacular sea of light was incredible. It was not only visually spectacular, but it brought 65,000 people together in the biggest concert crowd WA has ever seen.